February 22, 2007

What Snow Day?

By | February 22, 2007

Evidently some chick (see below) didn’t notice that we had a snow day last week. That’s pretty incredible. It’s not so crazy, though, I guess. I know people who found out classes were cancelled via their parents. And someone told me that he knew classes were cancelled, but “accidently” went to his evening class. Wow. Anyhow, you know the drill, send the best stuff you hear to overheard.cornell@gmail.com, and look for your submissions every Thursday in Daze.

Dude: Yo, what did you do on the snow day?
Chick: We had a snow day?
— Ho Plaza

Guy 1: I told you ’bout her already.
Guy 2: But you never said sexually retarded.
Guy 1: Well, I meant sexually inert.
Guy 2: Ah okay, like a noble gas.
Guy 1: Haha.
Guy 2: Highly unreactive, but maybe with a lot of energy.
Guy 1: Was that a joke your prof. made in class?
Guy 2: You could make a bond.
Guy 2: Nah, not at all.
— Outside Alice Cook Dining

“wrath of buddha”
— etched into desk in Uris Cocktail Lounge

Sketchy guy (on cell phone): Hey can you do me a favour? Can you get my underwear from your parents’ bedroom? I don’t want it to be awkward or anything …
— Ho Plaza

Cheesy country tune comes on the overhead sound system…
Annoyed girl to girlfriends: Oh my god I cannot take another country song, my roommate plays it ALL the time. Seriously it just … it makes me want to punch a baby!!
— Nasties

Prepared-to-flunk-LSAT-girl: Well, if I can’t be a lawyer, I can be a secretary.
— Uris Library

“I want Apple Jacks”
— carved into chair at library

Girl: Where are you going for spring break?
Wild Springbreaker: Well, I was thinking of heading down to the Commons for a bit.
— Trillium

Guy on phone: Classes are cancelled! … I know, right! … This is better than Hurricane Katrina! … Dude now that’s just wrong….
— Arts Quad

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ByFebruary 23, 2007

Deckhead:
Thursday Morning Dance Party

Body:
To Justin Weitz ‘07, who, in his Feb. 7th column “Don’t Know Much About History,” most snidely denounced the Sun columnist’s propensity to comment on the weather in Ithaca:
As I literally slid down Seneca Street on Saturday night in my knit black bubble skirt and three-inch heeled boots, little sounds escaping from me as a friend guided my paralyzed form down the hill, I couldn’t help but think of you. Yes, we had all thought that the great Valentine’s Day Snow Dump of 2007 was the worst that Ithaca had to offer this year, but when those first few stubborn flakes began to stick on Saturday afternoon, it was obvious that a whole new beast had been released: this snow was really, really slippery.

Body:
This coming weekend, Cornell’s music department is presenting a delicious array of new music. The centerpiece of the weekend is the visit of composer Fred Lerdahl from Columbia University. Lerdahl was one of the first current classical composers to recognize what many have come to believe about this genre: a large portion of it isn’t accessible to listeners without an advanced degree in music. He argued that the “compositional grammar,” (essentially, how composers compose), had become estranged from “listening grammar” (how listeners listen). At the same time, he did some truly pioneering work in the growing field of music cognition and coauthored A Generative Theory of Tonal Music.